Install Cotonti CMS/CMF on a CentOS 7 VPS

Cotonti is open source, community driven content management system (CMS) and content management framework (CMF) powered by PHP and MySQL. In this article we will guide you through the process of installing Cotonti on a CentOS 7 VPS with Apache, PHP and MariaDB.

Log in to your Linux VPS as user root and make sure that all packages are up to date

yum -y update

Now, we will install MariaDB

yum install mariadb-server mariadb

Start MariaDB and add it to automatically start on system start-up

systemctl start mariadb.service
systemctl enable mariadb.service

Run the following command to secure your MariaDB server and set a new root password

mysql_secure_installation

Cotonti needs an MySQL database, so log in to the MySQL server with user root and create new database and user

That’s all. Now, we need to lunch the web installer accessing http://yourdomain.com . The installation wizard will check if your server meets all the requirements, and will finish the Cotonti installation. You will need to enter your MySQL information and create administrator user.

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